{"product_id":"life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage-9780374529215","title":"Life You Save May Be Your Own An American Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O''Connor a Christ-haunted literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another''s books, and grappled with what one of them called a predicament shared in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e Paul Elie tells these writers'' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767444635991,"sku":"9780374529215","price":20.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780374529215.jpg?v=1758713323","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-you-save-may-be-your-own-an-american-pilgrimage-9780374529215","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}